One Hundred Years of Solitude

sold. Those rites of poverty
were so pure that they nearly
always set aside the largest
share for Fernanda, and they
did not do so out of remorse
or charity, but because her
well-being was more
important to them than their
own. What was really
happening to them, although
neither of them realized it,
was that they both thought of
Fernanda as the daughter that
they would have liked to have